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What is Skyfall?

The movie shares its code name with a bungled Cold War operation that was subsequently hushed up by M (Dame Judi Dench).

That mission’s failure comes back to haunt her. Silva’s attacks are directly related to the (Sky)fallout, which also creates a can-open, worms-everywhere effect on M’s career, bringing her under the scrutiny of government official Mallory (Ralph Fiennes).

But Skyfall’s also the title of Bond’s ancestral Highlands home -- a past hinted at, but never really explored before. Escaping another Silva salvo, Bond takes M to hide out in his old home, littered with the graves of Bonds long gone.

Are the two titles connected? And what does this mean for Bond’s relationship with his boss?